Understand how storage is provisioned and managed in Microsoft Azure Stack.

How to provision Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure Stack.

Configuring Resource Providers in Microsoft Azure Stack.

How to monitor and troubleshoot Microsoft Azure Stack.

Understand how licensing and billing works in Microsoft Azure Stack.

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Audience ProfileThis course is intended for service administrators, devops and cloud architects who are interested in using Microsoft Azure Stack to provide cloud services to their end-users or customers from within their own datacenter.

PrerequisitesBefore attending this course, students must have:

Working knowledge of Windows Server 2016.

Working knowledge of SQL Server 2014.

Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure.

Course ObjectivesAfter completing this course, students will be able to:

Describe the components and architecture of Microsoft Azure Stack.

Deploy Microsoft Azure Stack.

Understand the Windows Server 2016 features used in Microsoft Azure Stack.

Course OutlineModule 1: Overview of Azure StackIn this first module, the key concepts associated with Azure Stack are described that will help you understand what Azure Stack is and the functionality it provides. You will also learn about the differentiators between Azure Stack, Microsoft Azure and Windows Azure Pack.Lessons

What is Azure Stack?

Comparing Azure Stack with Microsoft Azure.

Comparing Azure Stack to Windows Azure Pack.

Module 2: Foundational Components of Microsoft Azure StackIn this module, you will learn about the Windows Server 2016 features that Azure Stack uses and optional System Center 2016 components that can be added to further manage and maintain an Azure Stack environment. You will also learn how Azure Stack manages authentication and the various authentication providers that are available.Lessons

This module discusses some of the key features in Azure Stack that provide the mechanisms used by tenants when consuming resources such as virtual machines and SQL Server databases.Lessons

Working with Plans and Offers.

Microsoft Azure Stack Marketplace.

Enabling Multi-Tenancy in Azure Stack.

Integrating Azure Stack with Windows Azure Pack.

Module 5: Microsoft Azure Stack and DevOpsThis module discusses the fundamentals of how Azure Stack enables organizations to leverage DevOps. It details the underpinnings of Azure Stack, the Azure Resource Manager, the SDKs and APIs available and also how configuration management technologies such as PowerShell Desired State Configuration, Chef and Puppet can be used to facilitate fast and consistent deployment of applications along with stability.Lessons

Module 7: Platform as a Service and Microsoft Azure StackStack brings Platform as Service (PaaS) based offerings from Microsoft Azure to Azure Stack. Microsoft Azure was originally designed for PaaS based application development with IaaS based services added later. With the initial release of Azure Stack, Microsoft are offering 4 PaaS based services: SQL and MySQL Databases App Service for websites Key Vault for securely storing secrets such as passwords and certificates Azure Functions for serverless compute This Module will detail each offering and show how these can be utilized.Lessons

Understanding the Platform as a Service.

SQL Server and MySQL Server Providers in Microsoft Azure Stack.

App Service Resource Provider.

Azure Key Vault.

Azure Functions.

Module 8: Monitoring in Microsoft Azure StackIn this module, you will learn how Azure Stack is monitored and updated. You will also learn how to monitor guest workloads that tenants have provisioned using Azure stack. You will learn how to troubleshoot the core components of Azure Stack. Finally, you will learn how Azure Stack infrastructure is protected and how you can also protect Tenant workloads.Lessons

Field Replaceable Unit.

Azure Stack Control Plane Monitoring.

Patching the Azure Stack Infrastructure.

Monitoring Guest Workloads in Microsoft Azure Stack.

Troubleshooting Azure Stack.

Protecting Azure Stack and Tenant Workloads.

Module 9: License Microsoft Azure Stack and Billing TenantsIn this module, you will learn how Azure Stack is licensed by Microsoft including the two charging models for Azure Stack and what other costs are typically involved in an Azure Stack deployment.Lessons